TECH

Wi-Fi signals can identify you through walls and even track your movements

It’s fair to say that Wi-Fi has become a pretty indispensable part of modern-day life, but it seems the technology can do a heck of a lot more than just stream data to and from our digital devices. Researchers in the US have developed a system called RF Capture that uses wireless signals to detect and track human motion throughout a building, even when people are behind walls or furniture, or are in rooms at the opposite end of the building. In a paper that will be presented at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 conference next month, researchers from the Massachusetts Institut

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NEWS

Nigeria is broke, we can’t afford to pay all 36 ministers-Buhari

Do you still want the job? President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said not all the 36 nominees would be ministers as some of them would only sit in the cabinet in order to meet the constitutional provision of a cabinet having 36...He also revealed there is no money to pay all the ministers because Nigeria is broke,, Buhari made his stance known interview he granted the Nigerian Television Authority and Channels TV shortly before he left India.. Buhari said, “There was no reduction (of ministers) to 36. What the constitution says, and we cannot work outside the con

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LIFESTYLE

John Fashanu Admits Paying his Brother £75,000 to Prevent Him Coming out as Gay

In a new interview with UK’s Mirror, ex-footballer John Fashanu admits to having paid his brother, Justin Fashanu, hush money in the sum of £75,000 to prevent him from coming out as gay. According to John, he begged him, threatened him, did everything he could possibly do to try and stop him coming out. John Fashanu revealed “I gave him the money because I didn’t want the embarrassment for me or my family. Had he come out now, it would be a different ball game. There wouldn’t be an issue, but there was then. Things are different now. Now he’d be hailed a hero.”

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NEWS

Russia just announced that it is sending humans to the Moon

Before 2030, Russia plans to land its first cosmonauts on the Moon, and Europe wants a piece of the action. They’re a little late for the great space race of the ’60s, but the mission is an admirable push for the re-ignited interest in manned deep-space travel. On Tuesday, at a space and technology conference in Moscow, the head of Roscosmos Energia – Russia’s version of NASA – announced: “A manned flight to the Moon and lunar landing is planned for 2029.” (more…)

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TECH

There’s a record-breaking ozone hole over Antarctica, but experts say not to worry

The surface area of the Antarctic ozone hole has been abnormally large for this time of year, breaking records in terms of its size for most of October. But scientists say there’s no cause for alarm, as the expansion is expected to be temporary in nature due to seasonal fluctuations. Researchers from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the official weather and climate agency of the United Nations, announced the news of the atypically large ozone hole this week, which reached its maximum extent on October 2 with an area of 28.2 million km2. (more…)

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